Today, I got a text just before class that my partner didn't finish their half of our 30 page research paper because: "That class is stupid." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I failed a final presentation. My partner, who did none of the research, presented the entire project, talking over me and glaring when I spoke up. He denied everything and the professor didn't believe me. Now I have to retake this class with the same professor. FML
Today, after attending lectures for months, studying for weeks, and spending hours writing a 15-page research paper, I was informed that due to technological issues during registration, I was not enrolled in the class. FML
Today, I found out that I chose a wrong class and my 30-page paper worth 10 credit points that I wrote for that class is basically worthless now, and my graduation might be postponed another semester just because of that. FML
Today, I finished a 6-part project. It took me 7 hours of straight work because my partner decided I should do it alone. I then learned that the reason my partner did not help me was because the teacher e-mailed the leader of every group, saying the project was cancelled. FML
Today, I found out that my ten-page paper, which has taken me two months to construct perfectly and is worth 30% of my grade, was on the wrong book. It’s due tomorrow. FML
Today, after I'd being sick all day, my boyfriend volunteered to do my very long sociology paper. I was later notified by my professor that the paper I'd submitted was completely plagiarized. FML
Today, I went to my first class of the semester. After an hour of intense note writing, I realized I was in the wrong class. FML
Today, I met up with my group for class. We were doing some final checks on the project we've been working on all semester, when I realized something about one guy's work seemed off. I googled it and found out it's almost completely plagiarized. It's all due in the morning. FML
Today, one of my classmates got bullied and the whole class got to wrote 2000 words about that. FML
Today, my research partner emails me 2 hours before our deadline saying that she can't complete her half of our 20 page report because when she woke up this morning she couldn't see. How did she write the email? FML
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kweenbitch 0
Thats why you don't depend on anyone but yourself.
DahkLohd 4
Get your revenge, OP. You know what's better than revenge? Nothing.
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CodingSquirrel 3
This sucks, but projects like this are preparation for the real world. There are a lot of people you may be paired with in jobs that don't pull their weight. You either have to deal with them and get them to do it or pull the weight and do a good job yourself. It's an important skill to learn how to deal with people like this. You give them deadlines and very importantly have them check in on their work. Make them show you that they're actually getting shit done, instead of "yeah, I've been working on it". Sadly many professors are not sympathetic to these situations for those reasons. You may get a bad grade but it's an important lesson to learn. Better now than later where you get fired for it.
persimmon 0
sorry but ydi for not being in contact w your partner until the moment the paper is due.
sweetonsno 1
YDI. Group project means "collaborate," not "delegate." Even if he or she had done "his/her half," you would have had a bad grade. Did you actually expect two separate 15-page papers to come together as a coherent whole?
xgetxbentx 13
show the text to your teacher then.
sallen0046 4
YDI for expecting someone else to provide half a paper when you were obviously supposed to collaborate and write the paper together. You're given weeks, occasionally well over a month to write a paper of this size, especially when you need to find time to work with someone else. You should have met with your partner and worked with them numerous times well before the due date. This is how the real world works. You're very rarely given a group project that can be divided into separate pieces. The entire point of the exercise is to see if you're actually capable of working together with someone else, and that if you're given a bad partner, you go out of your way to complete the project despite their lack of cooperation. If you do not, "x didn't help, so It's not done" is not an acceptable resolution.
yscpunkchick 14
it happens to everyone. my personal experience, the bitch who slacked off in a group project got hers in the end. we got to grade each other. the group as a whole ended up giving the slacker a D, while the rest of us got A's. very satisfying.
EpicPear 0
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macskapingvin 0
That class is indeed stupid. At least, the students in it seem to be, as they apparently don't understand the definition of partnership.
GoArmy6624 7
ydi. work alone next time and this won't happen.
wcstcomic 0
While agree with everyone who says that a decent amount of cooperation was required so this news was not "sudden", did you pause to consider that they had no choice but to work with a partner, and could not have worked "alone"?
ifeelya 5
I've typed 30-page research by myself... back in high school. you should prepare and communicate instead assuming he would do his half. FYL